2 BULLETIN 609, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



HISTORY, DISTRIBUTION, AND SYNONYMY. 



The only published record regarding injury by this species ap- 

 peared in 1915, when the writer mentioned the occurrence of the 

 larva on sweet potato in Porto Rico (6). 1 It was described first as 



Pig. 1. — The sweet-potato leaf-folder (Pilocrocis tripunctata) : a, Moth; h, egg; c, early 

 stage of larva, from side ; d, ventral view of larva ; e, side view of pupa. All enlarged ; 

 l>, highly magnified. (Original.) 



Phalaena tripunctata by Fabricius in 179-1 from material from the 

 Central American Islands ( 1 ) . Guenee recorded it ( asBotys cubanalis 

 Gn.) from Cuba (2), and Dyar listed it from Florida, Texas, and 

 the West Indies (5). 



Specimens from the following-named localities and now in the 

 National Museum have been identified by Mr. August Busck: Ker- 

 ville, Victoria, and San Antonio, Tex. ; Mexico ; Costa Eica ; Jamaica, 

 Cuba, and Grenada, West Indies. The addition of Baton Eouge, La., 1 

 and Brownsville, Tex., completes the list of known localities where/ 



the species occurs. 



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1 Figures in parentheses refer to " Literature cited," p. 12. 



